NPR

Uncle fester wrote: ↑Sat Jun 10, 2023 2:46 pm

PornDog wrote: ↑Sat Jun 10, 2023 1:10 pm It might make things a little awkward for Munster though - he'll be NIQ now

Like Cooney for Ulster?

Uncle fester wrote: ↑Sat Jun 10, 2023 2:46 pm

PornDog wrote: ↑Sat Jun 10, 2023 1:10 pm It might make things a little awkward for Munster though - he'll be NIQ now

Like Cooney for Ulster?

Uncle fester wrote: ↑Sat Jun 10, 2023 7:16 pm I'm confused?
(Even more so than usual)

EnergiseR2 wrote: ↑Wed Sep 20, 2023 7:45 pm Madigan retired. An absolute magnificent player not fully appreciated by savages and knackers

PornDog wrote: ↑Tue Oct 17, 2023 1:14 pm Good man Keith

I thought he said he was going to stay on with Munster though?

EnergiseR2 wrote: ↑Wed Oct 18, 2023 7:00 am

Uncle fester wrote: ↑Tue Oct 17, 2023 4:22 pm Surprised POM is playing on.
He's got a lot of miles on the clock.

Raging at the dying light

Blackmac wrote: ↑Thu Nov 23, 2023 9:43 pm Sorry to butt in but I'm coming to Dublin on my future son in laws stag next Saturday and I'm looking for advice on the best, cheapest and least problematic places to go drinking other than the usual haunts. We have a couple of things booked for the evening but looking for pubs during the day that will cope with a dozen or so drunken Scots and a few of us less pished and likely, highly embarrassed elders.

Blackmac wrote: ↑Thu Nov 23, 2023 9:43 pm Sorry to butt in but I'm coming to Dublin on my future son in laws stag next Saturday and I'm looking for advice on the best, cheapest and least problematic places to go drinking other than the usual haunts. We have a couple of things booked for the evening but looking for pubs during the day that will cope with a dozen or so drunken Scots and a few of us less pished and likely, highly embarrassed elders.

Camroc2 wrote: ↑Fri Nov 24, 2023 8:42 pm Where are you staying ?

As Fester says, the Sth William Street area is probably trendiest at the moment, and has still has some old style boozers such as Grogans, The Old Stand, The Stags head and The Long Hall as well as a myriad of other places.

Temple Bar, for all its faults, still does exactly what it says on the tin.

Richmond St/Camden Street is also very popular, and on the edge of the rapidly being gentrified Liberties, where some of the pubs may be a bit more edgy, but have a Michelin Bib restaurant around the corner.

More traditional rugby pubs are on Baggot Street, both Upper and Lower, and Ballsbridge, and there's also Ranelagh/Rathmines walkable from the centre, or LUAS, which is a whole centre of entertainment of its own.

Further afield, especially on a Sunday, try a DART to Howth or Dun Laoghaire, either end of Dublin Bay, lots of pubs and Restaurants around both, and lots of opportunity to take the sea air.

\Northside, avoid if possible.

Camroc2 wrote: ↑Sat Nov 25, 2023 10:48 am That said, if any of your lot are interested in art, there is a very decent Warhol exhibition, in association with the Warhol museum in Pittsburgh, on in the Municipal Gallery around the corner. I don't expect to see so many Warhols together in Dublin again in my lifetime.

PS The LUAS tram runs close to your hotel for quick escape to the Southside.

Blackmac wrote: ↑Sun Dec 03, 2023 5:59 pm Well as expected we had a brilliant time. Ireland really does hospitality well if not a bit expensively if you hit the tourist spots.
One thing I found odd is how randomly unreliable Uber charges are.. I don't think I have ever had an Uber fare, anywhere in the world, exceed the upper estimate but in Dublin it seems commonplace. It's obvious the traffic is insanely busy but that is usually factored in.

Uncle fester wrote: ↑Sun Dec 03, 2023 6:40 pm What places did you end up in? The young uns behave themselves?

Camroc2 wrote: ↑Sun Dec 03, 2023 10:46 pm

Blackmac wrote: ↑Sun Dec 03, 2023 5:59 pm Well as expected we had a brilliant time. Ireland really does hospitality well if not a bit expensively if you hit the tourist spots.
One thing I found odd is how randomly unreliable Uber charges are.. I don't think I have ever had an Uber fare, anywhere in the world, exceed the upper estimate but in Dublin it seems commonplace. It's obvious the traffic is insanely busy but that is usually factored in.

Uber drivers in Dublin are regular taxi drivers. Irish legislation doesn't allow Joe bloggs to use his/her car as a taxi. You need the requisite driver chit (taxis are deregulated so all you have to do is apply), but much more importantly have to show that you have the requisite insurances.

Blackmac wrote: ↑Mon Dec 04, 2023 9:37 am

Uncle fester wrote: ↑Sun Dec 03, 2023 6:40 pm What places did you end up in? The young uns behave themselves?

Generally made Murray's at the top of O'Connell street our base at it was close to the hotel. Also spent an afternoon in the Camden Bar and a couple of random pubs on the same street. Popped into Lombards, Temple Bar Hotel and the Lafayette and a couple of other ones on one of those beer bike tours. Inevitably we headed down to Temple Bar area and my Apple Pay appears to have been financially rogered in The Temple Bar Pub, John Gogarty's and the Thunderoad Bar.
I held my own until about 0100 both nights and then did a strategic retreat to let the youngsters get on with it. They seemed to roll into the hotel around 0500 both mornings.

In Gogartys some fat, bullet headed English prick told my 74 year old father in law, who had a ball of a time, that he would fuck him up bad if he spilled his beer. You can imagine his surprise when I tapped him on his shoulder and told him in no uncertain terms that if he wanted to fuck him up he would have to fuck me up and the 20 other Scots lads standing grinning behind me.

No one ended up in hospital, no drama and only one of the young lads fell foul of the Garda for have a pee up an alleyway, so by the standard of some of the stags I went on in my younger days, quite tame.

It really is always a pleasure drinking in Ireland. Great pubs, great staff, chilled bouncers and Guinness definitely tastes better.

Blackmac wrote: ↑Mon Dec 04, 2023 9:37 am

Uncle fester wrote: ↑Sun Dec 03, 2023 6:40 pm What places did you end up in? The young uns behave themselves?

Generally made Murray's at the top of O'Connell street our base at it was close to the hotel. Also spent an afternoon in the Camden Bar and a couple of random pubs on the same street. Popped into Lombards, Temple Bar Hotel and the Lafayette and a couple of other ones on one of those beer bike tours. Inevitably we headed down to Temple Bar area and my Apple Pay appears to have been financially rogered in The Temple Bar Pub, John Gogarty's and the Thunderoad Bar.
I held my own until about 0100 both nights and then did a strategic retreat to let the youngsters get on with it. They seemed to roll into the hotel around 0500 both mornings.

In Gogartys some fat, bullet headed English prick told my 74 year old father in law, who had a ball of a time, that he would fuck him up bad if he spilled his beer. You can imagine his surprise when I tapped him on his shoulder and told him in no uncertain terms that if he wanted to fuck him up he would have to fuck me up and the 20 other Scots lads standing grinning behind me.

No one ended up in hospital, no drama and only one of the young lads fell foul of the Garda for have a pee up an alleyway, so by the standard of some of the stags I went on in my younger days, quite tame.

It really is always a pleasure drinking in Ireland. Great pubs, great staff, chilled bouncers and Guinness definitely tastes better.

Camroc2 wrote: ↑Mon Dec 04, 2023 11:55 pm

Blackmac wrote: ↑Mon Dec 04, 2023 9:37 am

Uncle fester wrote: ↑Sun Dec 03, 2023 6:40 pm What places did you end up in? The young uns behave themselves?

Generally made Murray's at the top of O'Connell street our base at it was close to the hotel. Also spent an afternoon in the Camden Bar and a couple of random pubs on the same street. Popped into Lombards, Temple Bar Hotel and the Lafayette and a couple of other ones on one of those beer bike tours. Inevitably we headed down to Temple Bar area and my Apple Pay appears to have been financially rogered in The Temple Bar Pub, John Gogarty's and the Thunderoad Bar.
I held my own until about 0100 both nights and then did a strategic retreat to let the youngsters get on with it. They seemed to roll into the hotel around 0500 both mornings.

In Gogartys some fat, bullet headed English prick told my 74 year old father in law, who had a ball of a time, that he would fuck him up bad if he spilled his beer. You can imagine his surprise when I tapped him on his shoulder and told him in no uncertain terms that if he wanted to fuck him up he would have to fuck me up and the 20 other Scots lads standing grinning behind me.

No one ended up in hospital, no drama and only one of the young lads fell foul of the Garda for have a pee up an alleyway, so by the standard of some of the stags I went on in my younger days, quite tame.

It really is always a pleasure drinking in Ireland. Great pubs, great staff, chilled bouncers and Guinness definitely tastes better.

Glad you enjoyed yourselves and got home in one piece.

I take it you didn't make the Warhol exhibition......

Tichtheid wrote: ↑Tue Dec 05, 2023 6:07 pm Google tells me a pint of Heineken is €9.95 in the Temple Bar, €8.95 for a Guinness.

That's more than I paid at the British Film Institute bar in the Southbank Centre in London last week. Mind you I paid nearly eleven quid for a pint and a small bag of nuts in the middle of Brighton in the summer, it was an old local that took me unawares after it had been done up.


edit, when I was in my old home town rugby club in August I bought a round of three pints and a coke for twelve pounds

Camroc2 wrote: ↑Tue Dec 05, 2023 10:58 pm Temple Bar is tourist central for drinking, and prices to match.

Ireland wing Mack Hansen has been ruled out of their Six Nations campaign after dislocating his shoulder.
His club Connacht announced that Hansen will be out for three to four months.

The Australia native is undergoing surgery on Monday for the injury which he sustained in his side's win over Munster in the United Rugby Championship on New Year's Day.
Hansen, 25, has won 21 Ireland caps and played an important role in their Grand Slam success last year.

PornDog wrote: ↑Mon Jan 08, 2024 12:59 pm Ah bugger, he's so important to us as a secondary playmaker.

I would imagine JOB, Nash and Stockdale are the main pretenders at the moment. Wish Balacoune would rediscover some form.

laurent wrote: ↑Mon Jan 08, 2024 9:50 pm A lot of injuries this month (all countries)

Uncle fester wrote: ↑Mon Jan 08, 2024 9:42 pm

PornDog wrote: ↑Mon Jan 08, 2024 12:59 pm Ah bugger, he's so important to us as a secondary playmaker.

I would imagine JOB, Nash and Stockdale are the main pretenders at the moment. Wish Balacoune would rediscover some form.

Think he's out as well.

Zebo is the most like-for-like alternative, just saying...